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  • Bengal: Onset of wintry weather sees political temperature hovering between TMC, BJP

    By means of PTI

    KOLKATA:  Because the chilly climate approaches, the political temperature appears to be emerging in Bengal amid claims and counterclaims through the opposition BJP and the ruling TMC over the steadiness of the Mamata Banerjee-led executive.

    The month of December has assumed importance in Bengal’s political panorama over the last few months with a number of BJP leaders, together with Chief of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, mentioning on events that the TMC would stop to exist when the 12 months attracts to a detailed, an statement that used to be to begin with rebuffed through the ruling camp.

    Then again, with Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee expressing fear over contemporary palms seizures within the state and voicing apprehension that makes an attempt have been being made to stir unrest in north Bengal, BJP’s dire warnings at the moment are being taken significantly through some, assets within the birthday celebration mentioned.

    Call for for a separate union territory were gaining floor in north Bengal, with a number of BJP leaders and native outfits announcing since ultimate month that it used to be just a “topic of time.” The BJP management, alternatively, has distanced itself from the observation.

    TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh alleged that it used to be obtrusive from the BJP leaders’ statements that they have been hatching a conspiracy to destabilize the state executive.

    “The BJP were in the hunt for revenge someway after its defeat within the ultimate meeting polls. It’s obtrusive from their statements that they’re hatching a conspiracy to destabilize the state executive and create disturbances thru more than a few approach. If any untoward incident occurs in December, the BJP will likely be liable for it,” Ghosh mentioned.

    Echoing him, veteran TMC chief Sougata Roy mentioned the BJP is “determined to seize energy” in West Bengal come what may.

    “The BJP is attempting to create a December phobia to spice up the morale of birthday celebration staff. We have now noticed in Maharashtra and different states that the birthday celebration can slump to any degree to take hold of energy. They’re fanning separatism and making a monetary blockade through preventing fund glide to the state,” Roy advised PTI.
    READ | Some other people conspiring towards Bengal, seeking to defame us: Mamata

    Adhikari had mentioned in August that the TMC executive will “stop to exist” through December, and meeting elections will likely be held within the state at the side of the Lok Sabha polls in 2024.

    Best BJP leaders, together with state president Sukanta Majumdar, too had mentioned that “extraordinary” political traits will happen in December. BJP nationwide vice-president Dilip Ghosh, when approached, claimed that the state executive is administratively and financially on a sticky wicket.

    “The best way senior TMC leaders and ministers have been arrested, one after any other, in the previous couple of months, presentations that all the executive and the birthday celebration are thinking about corruption. You by no means know who’s subsequent. The regulation and order scenario, too, has worsened. So we really feel that the survival of the TMC executive is at stake,” Ghosh mentioned.

    BJP spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya feels that the state is at the verge of monetary cave in.

    “The TMC is going through political instability, and the industrial scenario within the state is terrible. The TMC leaders are at every different’s throats. The survival of this executive is at stake,” he advised PTI.

    CPI(M) chief Sujan Chakraborty mentioned that each the TMC and the BJP have been making makes an attempt to “create a binary to divert consideration from actual problems”.

    Political analysts and economists, alternatively, really feel the placement is best than what used to be projected through the BJP.

    “The industrial scenario of any state is gauged through its debt ratio and GSDP, and the ones figures don’t seem to be alarming. After the implementation of GST, tax assortment has additionally stepped forward. However on the similar time, populist and welfare schemes are striking force at the state exchequer,” economist Ajitav Rai Chaudhuri advised PTI.

    Veteran political scientist Amal Mukhopadhyay claimed that “a story created round a month is one thing extraordinary within the historical past of Bengal politics”.

    “By no means sooner than have we noticed such a lot hype being created round a month. I believe it is a hoax to stay the political cauldron boiling. At the present, politics in Bengal is with regards to mudslinging, communal polarisation and making a narrative to stick afloat,” Mukhopadhyay, former important of Presidency Faculty, added.

    ALSO READ | MGNREGA: West Bengal’s employment power with out Centre’s fund falls flat

    KOLKATA:  Because the chilly climate approaches, the political temperature appears to be emerging in Bengal amid claims and counterclaims through the opposition BJP and the ruling TMC over the steadiness of the Mamata Banerjee-led executive.

    The month of December has assumed importance in Bengal’s political panorama over the last few months with a number of BJP leaders, together with Chief of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, mentioning on events that the TMC would stop to exist when the 12 months attracts to a detailed, an statement that used to be to begin with rebuffed through the ruling camp.

    Then again, with Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee expressing fear over contemporary palms seizures within the state and voicing apprehension that makes an attempt have been being made to stir unrest in north Bengal, BJP’s dire warnings at the moment are being taken significantly through some, assets within the birthday celebration mentioned.

    Call for for a separate union territory were gaining floor in north Bengal, with a number of BJP leaders and native outfits announcing since ultimate month that it used to be just a “topic of time.” The BJP management, alternatively, has distanced itself from the observation.

    TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh alleged that it used to be obtrusive from the BJP leaders’ statements that they have been hatching a conspiracy to destabilize the state executive.

    “The BJP were in the hunt for revenge someway after its defeat within the ultimate meeting polls. It’s obtrusive from their statements that they’re hatching a conspiracy to destabilize the state executive and create disturbances thru more than a few approach. If any untoward incident occurs in December, the BJP will likely be liable for it,” Ghosh mentioned.

    Echoing him, veteran TMC chief Sougata Roy mentioned the BJP is “determined to seize energy” in West Bengal come what may.

    “The BJP is attempting to create a December phobia to spice up the morale of birthday celebration staff. We have now noticed in Maharashtra and different states that the birthday celebration can slump to any degree to take hold of energy. They’re fanning separatism and making a monetary blockade through preventing fund glide to the state,” Roy advised PTI.READ | Some other people conspiring towards Bengal, seeking to defame us: Mamata

    Adhikari had mentioned in August that the TMC executive will “stop to exist” through December, and meeting elections will likely be held within the state at the side of the Lok Sabha polls in 2024.

    Best BJP leaders, together with state president Sukanta Majumdar, too had mentioned that “extraordinary” political traits will happen in December. BJP nationwide vice-president Dilip Ghosh, when approached, claimed that the state executive is administratively and financially on a sticky wicket.

    “The best way senior TMC leaders and ministers have been arrested, one after any other, in the previous couple of months, presentations that all the executive and the birthday celebration are thinking about corruption. You by no means know who’s subsequent. The regulation and order scenario, too, has worsened. So we really feel that the survival of the TMC executive is at stake,” Ghosh mentioned.

    BJP spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya feels that the state is at the verge of monetary cave in.

    “The TMC is going through political instability, and the industrial scenario within the state is terrible. The TMC leaders are at every different’s throats. The survival of this executive is at stake,” he advised PTI.

    CPI(M) chief Sujan Chakraborty mentioned that each the TMC and the BJP have been making makes an attempt to “create a binary to divert consideration from actual problems”.

    Political analysts and economists, alternatively, really feel the placement is best than what used to be projected through the BJP.

    “The industrial scenario of any state is gauged through its debt ratio and GSDP, and the ones figures don’t seem to be alarming. After the implementation of GST, tax assortment has additionally stepped forward. However on the similar time, populist and welfare schemes are striking force at the state exchequer,” economist Ajitav Rai Chaudhuri advised PTI.

    Veteran political scientist Amal Mukhopadhyay claimed that “a story created round a month is one thing extraordinary within the historical past of Bengal politics”.

    “By no means sooner than have we noticed such a lot hype being created round a month. I believe it is a hoax to stay the political cauldron boiling. At the present, politics in Bengal is with regards to mudslinging, communal polarisation and making a narrative to stick afloat,” Mukhopadhyay, former important of Presidency Faculty, added.ALSO READ | MGNREGA: West Bengal’s employment power with out Centre’s fund falls flat

  • Would possibly not permit BJP to put in force CAA, says Mamata; it is going to be performed: Union minister

    Via PTI

    KOLKATA/ JALPAIGURI: West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday slammed the Centre for the imaginable implementation of the Citizenship (Modification) Act, claiming that the BJP used to be raking the problem forward of the Gujarat meeting election.

    Hours later, Union Minister of State for House Nisith Pramanik asserted that the CAA can be progressively carried out around the nation.

    The Centre had on Monday made up our minds to grant Indian citizenship to minorities most commonly from Pakistan, who’ve migrated to India, and are these days residing in two districts of Gujarat, beneath the Citizenship Act, 1955, and no longer the Citizenship Modification Act, 2019 (CAA).

    “Prevent these types of politics. They (BJP) are doing it as a result of there are elections in Gujarat. We can no longer allow them to put in force it. To us, all are electorate (of India). We’re in contrast,” Banerjee instructed newshounds on the Kolkata airport earlier than leaving for Chennai.

    She has travelled to the southern Indian town to wait a circle of relatives accumulating of West Bengal Governor Los angeles Ganesan.

    “I might say that elections aren’t that necessary, politics aren’t that necessary, folks’s lives are extra necessary,” she added.

    Union minister Pramanik, after touchdown at Bagdogra airport within the northern a part of West Bengal, instructed newshounds that the law can be carried out around the nation.

    “The CAA is for the disadvantaged and oppressed Hindus and others. It’s going to be carried out no longer best in Gujarat but additionally progressively all over the place India,” he mentioned.

    Chief of the Opposition in West Bengal Meeting Suvendu Adhikari of the BJP on Tuesday claimed that the method of CAA implementation has began within the nation and the state may not be omitted of it.

    BJP MLA Ashim Sarkar, on the other hand, on Tuesday sang a distinct music questioning what used to be the will for Citizenship Act in 2019 if citizenship used to be granted beneath the 1955 Act.

    The Narendra Modi govt desires to grant Indian nationality to persecuted non-Muslim migrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan — Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis and Christians — who had come to India until December 31, 2014.

    The CAA used to be handed via the Parliament in 2019 however the legislation is but to be carried out as laws beneath it have no longer been framed.

    The promise of imposing the debatable CAA have been a significant ballot plank of the BJP within the remaining Lok Sabha and Meeting polls.

    The saffron birthday celebration’s leaders imagine it a believable issue that ended in the upward push of the BJP in West Bengal. The panchayat election is due within the state in 2023.

    KOLKATA/ JALPAIGURI: West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday slammed the Centre for the imaginable implementation of the Citizenship (Modification) Act, claiming that the BJP used to be raking the problem forward of the Gujarat meeting election.

    Hours later, Union Minister of State for House Nisith Pramanik asserted that the CAA can be progressively carried out around the nation.

    The Centre had on Monday made up our minds to grant Indian citizenship to minorities most commonly from Pakistan, who’ve migrated to India, and are these days residing in two districts of Gujarat, beneath the Citizenship Act, 1955, and no longer the Citizenship Modification Act, 2019 (CAA).

    “Prevent these types of politics. They (BJP) are doing it as a result of there are elections in Gujarat. We can no longer allow them to put in force it. To us, all are electorate (of India). We’re in contrast,” Banerjee instructed newshounds on the Kolkata airport earlier than leaving for Chennai.

    She has travelled to the southern Indian town to wait a circle of relatives accumulating of West Bengal Governor Los angeles Ganesan.

    “I might say that elections aren’t that necessary, politics aren’t that necessary, folks’s lives are extra necessary,” she added.

    Union minister Pramanik, after touchdown at Bagdogra airport within the northern a part of West Bengal, instructed newshounds that the law can be carried out around the nation.

    “The CAA is for the disadvantaged and oppressed Hindus and others. It’s going to be carried out no longer best in Gujarat but additionally progressively all over the place India,” he mentioned.

    Chief of the Opposition in West Bengal Meeting Suvendu Adhikari of the BJP on Tuesday claimed that the method of CAA implementation has began within the nation and the state may not be omitted of it.

    BJP MLA Ashim Sarkar, on the other hand, on Tuesday sang a distinct music questioning what used to be the will for Citizenship Act in 2019 if citizenship used to be granted beneath the 1955 Act.

    The Narendra Modi govt desires to grant Indian nationality to persecuted non-Muslim migrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan — Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis and Christians — who had come to India until December 31, 2014.

    The CAA used to be handed via the Parliament in 2019 however the legislation is but to be carried out as laws beneath it have no longer been framed.

    The promise of imposing the debatable CAA have been a significant ballot plank of the BJP within the remaining Lok Sabha and Meeting polls.

    The saffron birthday celebration’s leaders imagine it a believable issue that ended in the upward push of the BJP in West Bengal. The panchayat election is due within the state in 2023.

  • CPI(M) drove away Tata from Singur, no longer me: Mamata Banerjee

    Banerjee mentioned she best returned the land to the folks that used to be forcibly received through the previous Left Entrance govt for the Tata Motors' Nano manufacturing facility in Singur in Hooghly district.

  • Calcutta Prime Court docket calls Didi’s doorstep ration scheme unlawful

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    KOLKATA: The West Bengal govt on Wednesday won a big setback because the Calcutta Prime Court docket termed its ‘Duare Ration’ (meals grains at the doorstep) scheme as legally void. The initiative used to be promised by means of Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee earlier than the 2021 Meeting elections and carried out after the Trinamool Congress (TMC) got here to energy for the 3rd immediately time period.

    The order got here after a petitioner moved the excessive court docket difficult the state govt’s initiative.
    “The Duare Ration scheme is extremely vires to the Nationwide Meals Safety Act, 2013, and is, subsequently, a nullity within the eye of the regulation,’’ stated the department bench comprising justice Aniruddha Roy and justice Chitta Ranjan Das.

    “We’re, subsequently, constrained to carry that the state govt has transgressed the restrict of delegation by means of obliging the truthful worth store sellers to distribute the rations to the beneficiaries at their doorstep in absence of any authority to that impact within the enabling Act i.e. ‘NFS Act’. If the ‘NFS Act’ is amended by means of the knowledge of the Union Legislature i.e. Parliament for doorstep supply of meals grains to the beneficiaries or make investments this sort of energy to the state govt then best the sort of scheme can also be made by means of the State and that may be stated to be in sync with the enabling Act,’’ the department bench noticed.

    The meals and provides division had in a notification cited provisions of the Nationwide Meals Safety Act (NFSA), claiming that it permits the state govt to ship rations at beneficiaries’ doorsteps.

    All through the process the listening to, the attorney representing the state govt cited clause 12 beneath NFSA’s bankruptcy V titled Reforms in Focused Public Distribution Machine which mentions that the central and state governments shall endeavour to steadily adopt important reforms within the centered public distribution device (PDS) in consonance with the function envisaged for them on this Act. The reforms shall, inter alia, come with doorstep supply of meals grains, he stated.

    He additionally cited the NFSA’s clause no 32 which says, “However the rest contained on this Act, the state govt might, proceed with or formulate meals or vitamin based totally plans or schemes offering for advantages upper than the advantages supplied beneath this Act, from its personal recourses.”

    However the department bench used to be no longer glad with the state’s rationalization and stalled the scheme.  The BJP welcomed the decision. “We raised the problem of the criminal standing of the scheme. It used to be introduced by means of Mamata to draw electorates as a part of her populist politics. The court docket order made it transparent that the scheme had no criminal standing because it used to be introduced,’’ celebration spokesperson Shamik Bhattacharya stated.

    Mamata’s promise of distributing meals grains on the doorstep of folks, made forward of the high-octane Meeting polls in 2021, used to be stated to be one of the most key elements at the back of the TMC’s thumping victory regardless of BJP’s competitive marketing campaign.

    The way it opened up

    February 2021: Mamata guarantees Duare Sarkar’s scheme if her celebration returns to energy.

    Would possibly 2021: TMC returns to energy and Mamata publicizes the implementation of the scheme in a while.

    November 2021: The scheme used to be carried out.

    November 2021: Petition filed in Prime Court docket difficult the initiative.

    December 2021: Unmarried bench pass judgement on upheld the meal scheme by means of opining {that a} reform within the centered public distribution device and a welfare scheme is a necessity-driven measure

    December 2021: Petitioner moved department bench.

    September 2022:  Prime court docket stalled the scheme pronouncing it’s legally void.

    Scheme

     Round 21,000 ration sellers succeed in localities the place beneficiaries are living to distribute meals grains.
     The ability is to be had from Tuesday to Friday each and every week.
     Focused beneficiaries are round 10 crore inhabitants.

    KOLKATA: The West Bengal govt on Wednesday won a big setback because the Calcutta Prime Court docket termed its ‘Duare Ration’ (meals grains at the doorstep) scheme as legally void. The initiative used to be promised by means of Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee earlier than the 2021 Meeting elections and carried out after the Trinamool Congress (TMC) got here to energy for the 3rd immediately time period.

    The order got here after a petitioner moved the excessive court docket difficult the state govt’s initiative.
    “The Duare Ration scheme is extremely vires to the Nationwide Meals Safety Act, 2013, and is, subsequently, a nullity within the eye of the regulation,’’ stated the department bench comprising justice Aniruddha Roy and justice Chitta Ranjan Das.

    “We’re, subsequently, constrained to carry that the state govt has transgressed the restrict of delegation by means of obliging the truthful worth store sellers to distribute the rations to the beneficiaries at their doorstep in absence of any authority to that impact within the enabling Act i.e. ‘NFS Act’. If the ‘NFS Act’ is amended by means of the knowledge of the Union Legislature i.e. Parliament for doorstep supply of meals grains to the beneficiaries or make investments this sort of energy to the state govt then best the sort of scheme can also be made by means of the State and that may be stated to be in sync with the enabling Act,’’ the department bench noticed.

    The meals and provides division had in a notification cited provisions of the Nationwide Meals Safety Act (NFSA), claiming that it permits the state govt to ship rations at beneficiaries’ doorsteps.

    All through the process the listening to, the attorney representing the state govt cited clause 12 beneath NFSA’s bankruptcy V titled Reforms in Focused Public Distribution Machine which mentions that the central and state governments shall endeavour to steadily adopt important reforms within the centered public distribution device (PDS) in consonance with the function envisaged for them on this Act. The reforms shall, inter alia, come with doorstep supply of meals grains, he stated.

    He additionally cited the NFSA’s clause no 32 which says, “However the rest contained on this Act, the state govt might, proceed with or formulate meals or vitamin based totally plans or schemes offering for advantages upper than the advantages supplied beneath this Act, from its personal recourses.”

    However the department bench used to be no longer glad with the state’s rationalization and stalled the scheme.  The BJP welcomed the decision. “We raised the problem of the criminal standing of the scheme. It used to be introduced by means of Mamata to draw electorates as a part of her populist politics. The court docket order made it transparent that the scheme had no criminal standing because it used to be introduced,’’ celebration spokesperson Shamik Bhattacharya stated.

    Mamata’s promise of distributing meals grains on the doorstep of folks, made forward of the high-octane Meeting polls in 2021, used to be stated to be one of the most key elements at the back of the TMC’s thumping victory regardless of BJP’s competitive marketing campaign.

    The way it opened up

    February 2021: Mamata guarantees Duare Sarkar’s scheme if her celebration returns to energy.

    Would possibly 2021: TMC returns to energy and Mamata publicizes the implementation of the scheme in a while.

    November 2021: The scheme used to be carried out.

    November 2021: Petition filed in Prime Court docket difficult the initiative.

    December 2021: Unmarried bench pass judgement on upheld the meal scheme by means of opining {that a} reform within the centered public distribution device and a welfare scheme is a necessity-driven measure

    December 2021: Petitioner moved department bench.

    September 2022:  Prime court docket stalled the scheme pronouncing it’s legally void.

    Scheme

     Round 21,000 ration sellers succeed in localities the place beneficiaries are living to distribute meals grains.
     The ability is to be had from Tuesday to Friday each and every week.
     Focused beneficiaries are round 10 crore inhabitants.

  • Money-strapped West Bengal passes invoice in Space to hike borrowing capability

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    KOLKATA:  Stressed with Rs 70,000 crore debt, the West Bengal govt on Wednesday handed a invoice within the Meeting to support its borrowing capability. The transfer to amend the West Bengal Fiscal Accountability and Funds Control Act, 2010, was once initiated within the wake of the Centre pausing the discharge of finances beneath the MGNREGA scheme. Mamata Banerjee-led govt is now determined to stay the glide of finances within the beneficiaries’ accounts unaffected ahead of the panchayat elections subsequent yr.

    Previous, the Union finance ministry had determined to mend the web borrowing ceiling for the state at 3.5 according to cent of the Gross State Home Product (GSDP) for 2022-23, and an extra borrowing capability of 0.5 according to cent of the GSDP. 

    “The state goes via acute fund crunch. In contemporary conferences, the CM has requested bureaucrats to determine tactics to generate influx. The federal government has no approach out instead of borrowing more cash to stay the welfare schemes alive,” mentioned a bureaucrat.

    The Union govt had previous directed the state to recuperate the cash which was once allegedly pilfered through the panchayat and zila parishad functionaries, and the state had initiated strikes to apply the directive.
    Revealing the deficient image of the cash-strapped and industry-starved state, contemporary statistics launched through the Central Trade and Trade Ministry display that from January to July, investments value Rs 1.17 lakh crore got here into India, of which West Bengal were given simplest Rs 1,663 crore. The state’s income most commonly comes from stamps and registration charges, state items and repair tax, gross sales tax on petrol and state excise.

    KOLKATA:  Stressed with Rs 70,000 crore debt, the West Bengal govt on Wednesday handed a invoice within the Meeting to support its borrowing capability. The transfer to amend the West Bengal Fiscal Accountability and Funds Control Act, 2010, was once initiated within the wake of the Centre pausing the discharge of finances beneath the MGNREGA scheme. Mamata Banerjee-led govt is now determined to stay the glide of finances within the beneficiaries’ accounts unaffected ahead of the panchayat elections subsequent yr.

    Previous, the Union finance ministry had determined to mend the web borrowing ceiling for the state at 3.5 according to cent of the Gross State Home Product (GSDP) for 2022-23, and an extra borrowing capability of 0.5 according to cent of the GSDP. 

    “The state goes via acute fund crunch. In contemporary conferences, the CM has requested bureaucrats to determine tactics to generate influx. The federal government has no approach out instead of borrowing more cash to stay the welfare schemes alive,” mentioned a bureaucrat.

    The Union govt had previous directed the state to recuperate the cash which was once allegedly pilfered through the panchayat and zila parishad functionaries, and the state had initiated strikes to apply the directive.
    Revealing the deficient image of the cash-strapped and industry-starved state, contemporary statistics launched through the Central Trade and Trade Ministry display that from January to July, investments value Rs 1.17 lakh crore got here into India, of which West Bengal were given simplest Rs 1,663 crore. The state’s income most commonly comes from stamps and registration charges, state items and repair tax, gross sales tax on petrol and state excise.

  • Dharmendra Pradhan writes to Mamata over land allocation for JNV in South 24 Parganas-I, Malda

    Via PTI

    NEW DELHI: Union Schooling Minister Dharmendra Pradhan wrote to West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday searching for her intervention to make sure the state allocates land for everlasting campuses of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in South 24 Parganas-I and Malda.

    Pradhan famous the land allotment factor for the 2 JNVs stays unresolved since 2007-08 and 2016 respectively.

    With the state management ultimate yr retreating the transient web site on which the JNV South 24 Parganas-I used to be functioning since 2007-08, the scholars needed to be shifted to close by JNVs and new admissions had been placed on hang, he mentioned.

    JNV-Malda which was once sanctioned in November 2016 remains to be non-functional for need of appropriate land for the development of an enduring campus and transient lodging.

    Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas are government-run Magnificence 6-12 chain of residential faculties. They admit scholars according to an front exam.

    “The necessities for the outlet of a JNV are the supply of about 30 acres of appropriate land, freed from value, in conjunction with good enough transient rent-free lodging, enough sufficient to house roughly 240 scholars, to be equipped by way of the involved State Executive to run the Vidyalaya for a duration of three to 4 years,” Pradhan mentioned within the letter.

    “JNV, South 24 Parganas was once sanctioned within the yr 2007 and made purposeful all through the instructional yr 2007-08 from a short lived web site equipped by way of the district management,” Pradhan mentioned, including the management had confident to switch land in favour of NVS for building of the everlasting construction.

    “Then again, the switch of the introduced land remains to be awaited and the transient web site has additionally been withdrawn all through February 2021.

    Consequently, the scholars finding out within the JNV, South 24 Paraganas-I needed to be shifted to the close by JNVs and extra admissions to the Vidyalaya have additionally been placed on hang,” he mentioned.

    The minister asked the West Bengal CM to appear into the subject individually and factor important directions to the officials involved to expedite the identity and switch of appropriate land and transient lodging.

    “In order that those vidyalayas may also be made purposeful on the earliest within the better passion of the training of the agricultural kids of those two districts,” the minister mentioned.

    NEW DELHI: Union Schooling Minister Dharmendra Pradhan wrote to West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday searching for her intervention to make sure the state allocates land for everlasting campuses of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in South 24 Parganas-I and Malda.

    Pradhan famous the land allotment factor for the 2 JNVs stays unresolved since 2007-08 and 2016 respectively.

    With the state management ultimate yr retreating the transient web site on which the JNV South 24 Parganas-I used to be functioning since 2007-08, the scholars needed to be shifted to close by JNVs and new admissions had been placed on hang, he mentioned.

    JNV-Malda which was once sanctioned in November 2016 remains to be non-functional for need of appropriate land for the development of an enduring campus and transient lodging.

    Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas are government-run Magnificence 6-12 chain of residential faculties. They admit scholars according to an front exam.

    “The necessities for the outlet of a JNV are the supply of about 30 acres of appropriate land, freed from value, in conjunction with good enough transient rent-free lodging, enough sufficient to house roughly 240 scholars, to be equipped by way of the involved State Executive to run the Vidyalaya for a duration of three to 4 years,” Pradhan mentioned within the letter.

    “JNV, South 24 Parganas was once sanctioned within the yr 2007 and made purposeful all through the instructional yr 2007-08 from a short lived web site equipped by way of the district management,” Pradhan mentioned, including the management had confident to switch land in favour of NVS for building of the everlasting construction.

    “Then again, the switch of the introduced land remains to be awaited and the transient web site has additionally been withdrawn all through February 2021.

    Consequently, the scholars finding out within the JNV, South 24 Paraganas-I needed to be shifted to the close by JNVs and extra admissions to the Vidyalaya have additionally been placed on hang,” he mentioned.

    The minister asked the West Bengal CM to appear into the subject individually and factor important directions to the officials involved to expedite the identity and switch of appropriate land and transient lodging.

    “In order that those vidyalayas may also be made purposeful on the earliest within the better passion of the training of the agricultural kids of those two districts,” the minister mentioned.

  • Horrendous that WB government which ‘banned’ Durga Puja is taking credit score for UNESCO honour: MoS Lekhi 

    Previous this month, Banerjee had led a rally celebrating the inclusion of 'Durga Puja in Kolkata' in UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity listing.

  • Mamata taking part in ‘hide-and-seek’ via giving blank chit to PM Modi on misuse of companies: Congress 

    Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate requested if Banerjee was once giving a blank chit to the top minister at a time when all the nation was once elevating questions at the factor of misuse of companies.

  • KCR, Nitish Kumar, Opposition galaxy to enroll in INLD rally

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    NEW DELHI: Telangana Leader Minister Okay Chandrashekhar Rao will attend Indian Nationwide Lok Dal’s (INLD) public rally on September 25 in Haryana, consistent with Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leaders. The rally “Samman Diwas” is being organised to mark the start anniversary of former deputy Top minister and birthday party founder Devi Lal.

    The rally, which shall be attended via a galaxy of Opposition leaders together with Bihar Leader minister Nitish Kumar and deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav is being observed as the approaching in combination of opposition events in opposition to the BJP within the run-up to the 2024 Normal elections. INLD says that the rally shall be a ancient ‘Samman Divas’ and it’s going to mark the ‘starting of a transformation with the participation of lakhs of other folks.

    Except KCR, a number of regional leaders comparable to NCP leader Sharad Pawar, Nationwide Convention president Farooq Abdullah,  Samajwadi Birthday party (SP)  chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and Akhilesh Yadav are anticipated to wait the rally. The invitees additionally come with TDP president Chandrababu Naidu and West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee amongst others. In line with INLD leaders, Shiromani Akali Dal patriarch Parkash Singh Badal and plenty of extra are more likely to attend the rally.

    For KCR, who has been assembly a number of regional leaders within the contemporary previous, the rally shall be a possibility to resume his ties, say resources. Whilst he met Nitish Kumar in Bihar after he walked out of the alliance with the BJP, KCR additionally held deliberations with JDS chief H D Kumaraswamy in Hyderabad final week.

    Traumatic parleys between Opposition leaders will happen at the sidelines of the assembly, mentioned TRS resources. The rally comes at the heels of the announcement of KCR to release a countrywide birthday party with another nationwide time table in opposition to the saffron birthday party. TRS leaders mentioned that the birthday party will attempt to enlarge its footprints in different states comparable to Gujarat, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and different states and shall be searching for the strengthen of leaders of the ones states.

    Whilst INLD leader and previous Haryana Leader Minister Om Prakash Chautala and his son Abhay Chautala had been inviting leaders from many walks, Congress is conspicuously absent a few of the invitees. Despite the fact that probably the most opposition events together with TRS, JDS and TMC favour an Opposition bloc minus Congress, Nitish Kumar has been focused on taking the grand previous birthday party on board.

    TRS leaders say that regardless that Nitish has emerged as a key participant in bringing the opposition events in combination, KCR is open to running with him on the nationwide degree. “Despite the fact that the final assembly between Nitish and KCR didn’t finish on a favorable observe, KCR is open to running with him,” mentioned the TRS chief.

    Closing week, Kumar met a number of opposition leaders together with Rahul Gandhi, Sharad Pawar, Arvind Kejriwal, and CPI(M) Sitaram Yechury amongst many others. Within the 2019 polls, the INLD was once routed with handiest Abhay managing to win the election from Ellanabad. He had later resigned from his seat in harmony with farmers’ year-long agitation in opposition to the now-repealed 3 contentious central farm regulations.

    The 87-year-old Jat chief and five-time CM, Chautala, who got here out of jail final yr on crowning glory of his 10-year prison time period, has been taking a look to assist the INLD degree a comeback in Haryana politics throughout the Samman Diwas rally.

    NEW DELHI: Telangana Leader Minister Okay Chandrashekhar Rao will attend Indian Nationwide Lok Dal’s (INLD) public rally on September 25 in Haryana, consistent with Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leaders. The rally “Samman Diwas” is being organised to mark the start anniversary of former deputy Top minister and birthday party founder Devi Lal.

    The rally, which shall be attended via a galaxy of Opposition leaders together with Bihar Leader minister Nitish Kumar and deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav is being observed as the approaching in combination of opposition events in opposition to the BJP within the run-up to the 2024 Normal elections. INLD says that the rally shall be a ancient ‘Samman Divas’ and it’s going to mark the ‘starting of a transformation with the participation of lakhs of other folks.

    Except KCR, a number of regional leaders comparable to NCP leader Sharad Pawar, Nationwide Convention president Farooq Abdullah,  Samajwadi Birthday party (SP)  chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and Akhilesh Yadav are anticipated to wait the rally. The invitees additionally come with TDP president Chandrababu Naidu and West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee amongst others. In line with INLD leaders, Shiromani Akali Dal patriarch Parkash Singh Badal and plenty of extra are more likely to attend the rally.

    For KCR, who has been assembly a number of regional leaders within the contemporary previous, the rally shall be a possibility to resume his ties, say resources. Whilst he met Nitish Kumar in Bihar after he walked out of the alliance with the BJP, KCR additionally held deliberations with JDS chief H D Kumaraswamy in Hyderabad final week.

    Traumatic parleys between Opposition leaders will happen at the sidelines of the assembly, mentioned TRS resources. The rally comes at the heels of the announcement of KCR to release a countrywide birthday party with another nationwide time table in opposition to the saffron birthday party. TRS leaders mentioned that the birthday party will attempt to enlarge its footprints in different states comparable to Gujarat, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and different states and shall be searching for the strengthen of leaders of the ones states.

    Whilst INLD leader and previous Haryana Leader Minister Om Prakash Chautala and his son Abhay Chautala had been inviting leaders from many walks, Congress is conspicuously absent a few of the invitees. Despite the fact that probably the most opposition events together with TRS, JDS and TMC favour an Opposition bloc minus Congress, Nitish Kumar has been focused on taking the grand previous birthday party on board.

    TRS leaders say that regardless that Nitish has emerged as a key participant in bringing the opposition events in combination, KCR is open to running with him on the nationwide degree. “Despite the fact that the final assembly between Nitish and KCR didn’t finish on a favorable observe, KCR is open to running with him,” mentioned the TRS chief.

    Closing week, Kumar met a number of opposition leaders together with Rahul Gandhi, Sharad Pawar, Arvind Kejriwal, and CPI(M) Sitaram Yechury amongst many others. Within the 2019 polls, the INLD was once routed with handiest Abhay managing to win the election from Ellanabad. He had later resigned from his seat in harmony with farmers’ year-long agitation in opposition to the now-repealed 3 contentious central farm regulations.

    The 87-year-old Jat chief and five-time CM, Chautala, who got here out of jail final yr on crowning glory of his 10-year prison time period, has been taking a look to assist the INLD degree a comeback in Haryana politics throughout the Samman Diwas rally.

  • BJP introduced armed goons in trains from out of doors for rally, claims Mamata

    Via PTI

    KOLKATA: West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday alleged that the BJP introduced in hoodlums armed with bombs in trains from out of doors the state to foment hassle all the way through its march to the state secretariat Nabanna.

    Banerjee, additionally the Trinamool Congress supremo, stated the police may have opened hearth on “violent” BJP protesters all the way through the protest march on Tuesday, however the govt exercised “most” restraint.

    “Many police workforce have been brutally attacked by means of the members of that rally. Police may have opened hearth, however our management confirmed most restraint,” she stated all the way through an administrative assembly at Nimtouri in Purba Medinipur district.

    Given the similar ‘violent’ state of affairs, a minimum of 20 folks would were killed in firing had it been the Left Entrance regime, all the way through which the police have been “trigger-happy”, TMC nationwide basic secretary Abhishek Banerjee, thought to be the quantity two within the birthday celebration, claimed in Kolkata.

    Throughout the rally, BJP supporters fought pitched battles with the police, threw stones at them, torched a automobile and broken a kiosk whilst the law enforcement officials used batons and water cannons to disperse the protesters. A number of individuals from either side have been injured within the melee.

    The CM stated the protest march inconvenienced commuters and buyers, because it used to be held slightly a couple of weeks forward of Durga Puja, the state’s greatest pageant.

    ALSO READ| ‘Nabanna Abhiyan’: Bengal police use tear fuel to disperse BJP activists; a number of harm as protest escalates into violence

    “Now we have not anything towards democratic and non violent protests. However the BJP and its supporters resorted to violence, vandalism and arson. They torched homes and instilled worry amongst folks. We may not permit this. Arrests are being made, and regulation will take its personal route,” she stated.

    Banerjee, additionally the CM’s nephew, stated democratic protesters would no longer torch a police automobile or attack a cop who had just a walkie-talkie in his hand.

    He used to be speaking to journalists after visiting Assistant Commissioner of Police Debjit Chatterjee, who used to be injured all the way through the rally, at SSKM Health facility.

    “Had I been provide on the spot the place the vandals poured petrol in a police automobile and set it ablaze, I’d have fired on the head of the attackerS. I’m talking best as an abnormal guy offended with such rowdyism, no longer as a member of a pressure underneath TMC rule which makes sense, restrained and humane,” Abhishek Banerjee stated.

    He asked “a bit of the judiciary” to have a look at the protesters who took the regulation into their arms and did mayhem.

    Within the TMC rule, the police don’t open hearth indiscriminately as used to be the norm within the Left Entrance regime, he claimed.

    ALSO READ| ‘Nabanna Abhiyan’: Suvendu detained in Kolkata, clashes between BJP employees, police throughout Bengal

    He sought to remind the folk that police firing had left 13 folks useless all the way through the TMC’s march to Writers Structures, the then state secretariat, on July 21, 1993, when the CPI(M)-led Left Entrance used to be in energy within the state.

    “I salute all our police workforce for his or her tireless efforts in keeping up regulation & order in our state; Kolkata is the most secure town owing to you,” the TMC MP stated in a Fb put up later.

    Abhishek Banerjee additionally took a dig on the Chief of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari for telling a policewoman to not contact her when “she requested him to accompany her to a police automobile”.

    BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar described the TMC chief’s remark about firing at protesters as “alarming”. “His phrases will best embolden the police and cadre giving upward push to shootings in long run,” he stated.

    ALSO READ: Police may have opened hearth on violent BJP protesters, however executive exercised restraint: Mamata

    Majumdar claimed the vandalism all the way through Tuesday’s protest march used to be instigated by means of TMC males who have been amongst BJP activists to malign the saffron birthday celebration.

    He stated BJP will release an intense motion after Kali Puja throughout West Bengal towards the “misrule” of the TMC.

    KOLKATA: West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday alleged that the BJP introduced in hoodlums armed with bombs in trains from out of doors the state to foment hassle all the way through its march to the state secretariat Nabanna.

    Banerjee, additionally the Trinamool Congress supremo, stated the police may have opened hearth on “violent” BJP protesters all the way through the protest march on Tuesday, however the govt exercised “most” restraint.

    “Many police workforce have been brutally attacked by means of the members of that rally. Police may have opened hearth, however our management confirmed most restraint,” she stated all the way through an administrative assembly at Nimtouri in Purba Medinipur district.

    Given the similar ‘violent’ state of affairs, a minimum of 20 folks would were killed in firing had it been the Left Entrance regime, all the way through which the police have been “trigger-happy”, TMC nationwide basic secretary Abhishek Banerjee, thought to be the quantity two within the birthday celebration, claimed in Kolkata.

    Throughout the rally, BJP supporters fought pitched battles with the police, threw stones at them, torched a automobile and broken a kiosk whilst the law enforcement officials used batons and water cannons to disperse the protesters. A number of individuals from either side have been injured within the melee.

    The CM stated the protest march inconvenienced commuters and buyers, because it used to be held slightly a couple of weeks forward of Durga Puja, the state’s greatest pageant.

    ALSO READ| ‘Nabanna Abhiyan’: Bengal police use tear fuel to disperse BJP activists; a number of harm as protest escalates into violence

    “Now we have not anything towards democratic and non violent protests. However the BJP and its supporters resorted to violence, vandalism and arson. They torched homes and instilled worry amongst folks. We may not permit this. Arrests are being made, and regulation will take its personal route,” she stated.

    Banerjee, additionally the CM’s nephew, stated democratic protesters would no longer torch a police automobile or attack a cop who had just a walkie-talkie in his hand.

    He used to be speaking to journalists after visiting Assistant Commissioner of Police Debjit Chatterjee, who used to be injured all the way through the rally, at SSKM Health facility.

    “Had I been provide on the spot the place the vandals poured petrol in a police automobile and set it ablaze, I’d have fired on the head of the attackerS. I’m talking best as an abnormal guy offended with such rowdyism, no longer as a member of a pressure underneath TMC rule which makes sense, restrained and humane,” Abhishek Banerjee stated.

    He asked “a bit of the judiciary” to have a look at the protesters who took the regulation into their arms and did mayhem.

    Within the TMC rule, the police don’t open hearth indiscriminately as used to be the norm within the Left Entrance regime, he claimed.

    ALSO READ| ‘Nabanna Abhiyan’: Suvendu detained in Kolkata, clashes between BJP employees, police throughout Bengal

    He sought to remind the folk that police firing had left 13 folks useless all the way through the TMC’s march to Writers Structures, the then state secretariat, on July 21, 1993, when the CPI(M)-led Left Entrance used to be in energy within the state.

    “I salute all our police workforce for his or her tireless efforts in keeping up regulation & order in our state; Kolkata is the most secure town owing to you,” the TMC MP stated in a Fb put up later.

    Abhishek Banerjee additionally took a dig on the Chief of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari for telling a policewoman to not contact her when “she requested him to accompany her to a police automobile”.

    BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar described the TMC chief’s remark about firing at protesters as “alarming”. “His phrases will best embolden the police and cadre giving upward push to shootings in long run,” he stated.

    ALSO READ: Police may have opened hearth on violent BJP protesters, however executive exercised restraint: Mamata

    Majumdar claimed the vandalism all the way through Tuesday’s protest march used to be instigated by means of TMC males who have been amongst BJP activists to malign the saffron birthday celebration.

    He stated BJP will release an intense motion after Kali Puja throughout West Bengal towards the “misrule” of the TMC.